Friday, June 30, 2006
Still Limping
Yep. That is right still hobbling along on one foot. The swelling and bruises are completely gone and the pain was almost gone about a week ago, but recently the pain has come back something fierce.
I was just about walking on it normally and now am back to barely putting any weight on it.
On the plus side it seems like all the walking on the side of my foot seems to be building up an arch on that foot. Now I just need to make one on the other foot.
Consequently I have not been able to go back to the martial arts class which has got me pretty bummed.
My class is going well. I aced the first quiz and got a 96 on the first Exam. The second quiz I think I may have missed a couple, but no worries. I have got the take home questions to do for the second Exam next Wednesday.
Other than that I have started trying to read a manga in the Japanese. Wow, talk about tough. I am starting to get the basics of how to look up things, but putting all the little pieces together are eluding me so far. Just reading the kanji though seems to get the majority of the meaning across. But the other hiragana seem to make up most of the modifiers and context. So I could be misinterpreting things completely. I have almost made it through the first page though.
I just want to repeat how much I love Netflix. It is an awesome service. So far I have not experienced any slow down or with holding of titles to reduce the number I am renting. That is probably because I am not getting the current, popular titles. Most of them are foreign films that probably are not rented that often. I have been able to watch some fantastic films though. A recent good one is The Happiness of the Katakuris. A japanese indie film, it is best described as a Comedy/Horror/Musical. I will let you picture how that works, but watch it if you can, it is good.
I was just about walking on it normally and now am back to barely putting any weight on it.
On the plus side it seems like all the walking on the side of my foot seems to be building up an arch on that foot. Now I just need to make one on the other foot.
Consequently I have not been able to go back to the martial arts class which has got me pretty bummed.
My class is going well. I aced the first quiz and got a 96 on the first Exam. The second quiz I think I may have missed a couple, but no worries. I have got the take home questions to do for the second Exam next Wednesday.
Other than that I have started trying to read a manga in the Japanese. Wow, talk about tough. I am starting to get the basics of how to look up things, but putting all the little pieces together are eluding me so far. Just reading the kanji though seems to get the majority of the meaning across. But the other hiragana seem to make up most of the modifiers and context. So I could be misinterpreting things completely. I have almost made it through the first page though.
I just want to repeat how much I love Netflix. It is an awesome service. So far I have not experienced any slow down or with holding of titles to reduce the number I am renting. That is probably because I am not getting the current, popular titles. Most of them are foreign films that probably are not rented that often. I have been able to watch some fantastic films though. A recent good one is The Happiness of the Katakuris. A japanese indie film, it is best described as a Comedy/Horror/Musical. I will let you picture how that works, but watch it if you can, it is good.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Tuesday I was invited by a friend to go with him to his Tae Kwon Do class.
It was pretty awesome. Learned some basic kicking techniques. I was doing alright up to near the end where we were doing right kick, left punch, right punch, left kick and then punches, kicks again, etc...
I had a nice rythum down until one of my left kicks was horribly fumbled. I did not pivot my hips or lift my leg up as much as I was supposed to so I ended up kicking my foot sideways into the bag instead of using the top of my foot. I felt the pain right away, but it was fairly minor.
However it steadily got worse. By the time I got home it was a little swollen. Put some ice on it and went to bed. Yesterday it was swollen even worse and I could barely put any weight on it. I ended up hobbling around work and to class. This morning however the swelling has gone down considerably. It still pains me to stand on it, but I think in a few more days I should be as right as rain.
My Economics class is going all right. I really need to read through the chapters again. Our first quiz is next Monday with our first Exam the following Wednesday. Time to study up. I was still a bit uncertain on many things during class. I may pick up that study guide after all.
It was pretty awesome. Learned some basic kicking techniques. I was doing alright up to near the end where we were doing right kick, left punch, right punch, left kick and then punches, kicks again, etc...
I had a nice rythum down until one of my left kicks was horribly fumbled. I did not pivot my hips or lift my leg up as much as I was supposed to so I ended up kicking my foot sideways into the bag instead of using the top of my foot. I felt the pain right away, but it was fairly minor.
However it steadily got worse. By the time I got home it was a little swollen. Put some ice on it and went to bed. Yesterday it was swollen even worse and I could barely put any weight on it. I ended up hobbling around work and to class. This morning however the swelling has gone down considerably. It still pains me to stand on it, but I think in a few more days I should be as right as rain.
My Economics class is going all right. I really need to read through the chapters again. Our first quiz is next Monday with our first Exam the following Wednesday. Time to study up. I was still a bit uncertain on many things during class. I may pick up that study guide after all.
Friday, June 09, 2006
New season, New stuff to do
I don't seem to be able to post with any kind of regularity. Oh well, at least I have not abandoned it all together.
Some things I have been doing lately:
Learning Japanese
Going back to college
Not sleeping enough
Running
I has started to dabble a bit in learning some Japanese. Right now I am focusing more on the reading part of it as I found this neat little program calle Slime Forest. It is a cool shareware program that helps teach you hiragana, katakana, and even kanji as you beat cute little slimes into the after life. I know pretty much all of the hiragana and katakana and I know about 55 kanji already. Sweet! I also picked up a Japanese dictionary and a couple of original Japanese manga to read. I have not started on that yet, but I can't think of a better way of learning words for me.
Back to college, taking Macroeconomics course. Shouldn't be too hard as long as I don't fall behind in the readings.
Don't have a whole lot to say about this one other than. Curse you video games!
I have been trying to shed the little pot belly I grew and so have started to do some aerobic exercising in addition to the weight lifting that I have been doing. Running is kind of a love/hate relationship for me. I seem to be liking it more as I run more thought. I am able to run about 1 mile before I get to tired to continue. Yesterday though after my run I seemed to recover very fast and felt like I could run even farther. I was also able to touch the ground with my legs straight for the first time that I can remember. So that was pretty cool.
Some things I have been doing lately:
Learning Japanese
Going back to college
Not sleeping enough
Running
I has started to dabble a bit in learning some Japanese. Right now I am focusing more on the reading part of it as I found this neat little program calle Slime Forest. It is a cool shareware program that helps teach you hiragana, katakana, and even kanji as you beat cute little slimes into the after life. I know pretty much all of the hiragana and katakana and I know about 55 kanji already. Sweet! I also picked up a Japanese dictionary and a couple of original Japanese manga to read. I have not started on that yet, but I can't think of a better way of learning words for me.
Back to college, taking Macroeconomics course. Shouldn't be too hard as long as I don't fall behind in the readings.
Don't have a whole lot to say about this one other than. Curse you video games!
I have been trying to shed the little pot belly I grew and so have started to do some aerobic exercising in addition to the weight lifting that I have been doing. Running is kind of a love/hate relationship for me. I seem to be liking it more as I run more thought. I am able to run about 1 mile before I get to tired to continue. Yesterday though after my run I seemed to recover very fast and felt like I could run even farther. I was also able to touch the ground with my legs straight for the first time that I can remember. So that was pretty cool.
